Post Script

There have been a few instances over the past year where the transition from Preferred Bidder to being award a terminal concession has been unusually swift.

Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought fundamental change to the ports sector. And while this change was born out of adversity much of it is change that can now be…

The early expulsion of Getma International, a subsidiary of the NCT Necotrans group, from its 25-year concession for the Conakry container terminal in Guinea has all the hallmarks of a most extraordinary…

International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has entered the burgeoning Indian container market in an innovative way.

Under the control of the World Bank, a major study has recently been conducted into the African ports industry studying both sub-Saharan African and North African ports.

Is it a double edged sword allowing market forces not to prevail?

Back in the May issue of PS you may recall that there appeared to be some strange things going on with the concessioning of the Dakar container terminal in Senegal. Remember one…